Tuesday January 14, 2003

Lucky Bastard

Ovidiu is going to work for Google. Of course, luck has nothing to do with it. But I think most everyone envies him the opportunity to work for such an interesting company. And I've heard good things about how they treat their employees. Successful and friendly, a nice combination.
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Monday January 13, 2003

The Bliss of marrying outside the clan:

If I talk about work, she's no idea what I'm talking about, if she talks about work, I've no idea what she's talking about. [Hacking Log 2.0]

I like reading AOC, he sounds so much like me when I have the courage to speak my mind ;-) Really, this sounds just like my wife and I. She's a theatre professional (Lighting Designer and Operator), and I'm a trained "brain squeezer." I did my undergrad in Psych, and part of a PostDoc in Neuroscience - but somehow ended up trying to make computers understand me. But back to the topic, I often tell people that it works this way for us: Some days I come home and tell her of the frustrations/excitement at work, and she nods politely and pretends to understand. On other nights she comes home and tells me of the frustrations/excitement at work, and I nod politely and pretend to understand.

And in this way we keep each other happy.

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Rotten Morning

I can't read any FreeRoller accounts (db connection appears to be down), and RaibleDesigns is out of commision as well. Guess that means I should get to work ;-(

Update: they're both available again
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Friday January 10, 2003

More credit than his due?

If he misspelt the word on purpose, than he is due, otherwise I think I just over-accredited Mr. Oliver for creative (ironic?) spelling:

... the guys who write the JSP engines not the jeniuses who think they're OOP masters because they learned JSP and use it for everything ... [Hacking Log 2.0]

emphasis is mine.
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Re: What happened to female programmers?

As a sort of side-note, I have known many women in the computer industry; mostly working as Testers, Documentation, and Graphic Design. I started as a Tester myself, and this requires a different skillset but a definite understanding of the technology under the gun! Where am I going with this? I have no idea. ( Jan 10 2003, 09:02:03 AM ) Technology Permalink Comments [1] [Link]
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Re: The Tyranny of the Hierarchical File System

John Munsch points to newdocms, a non-hierarchical, properties-based file storage idiom. Perhaps it is just my atrophying brain, but looking at the example Save As dialog, this looks like *more* work to me. I guess it is nice to have an alternative, but I doubt I would use this. ( Jan 10 2003, 08:57:13 AM ) Technology Permalink [Link]
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Btw, What happened to female programmers?

Btw,What happened to female programmers.? Did i miss any female bloggers on the technology section or am I the only girl here.Looks like programming is not glamourous to girls of this generation.

I'm trying to think of *any* female programmers I've known... I can think of one (Hi Milla, if you're reading this). So it was nice to read Chiara's blog, I like what she has to say!

Later: I forgot Karin, sorry. Anyone else I miss (from my personal experience, that is)? That was over 4 years ago that I knew both... ( Jan 10 2003, 08:04:03 AM ) Technology Permalink Comments [1] [Link]
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Thursday January 09, 2003

It's really very simple

Erik asks J2EE security - am I missing something? Depending on how you are implementing your pages, I can think of a couple (hackish?) ways. However, I'm writing on a dying laptop, so I'll have to post more tomorrow. ( Jan 09 2003, 10:24:07 PM ) Technology Permalink [Link]
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